How to Drive Traffic With Backlinks

One day an aspiring affiliate marketer purchases super affiliate Rosalind Gardner's best selling book   The Super Affiliate Handbook and while reading a reading on the section on how to draw traffic to your affiliate site you come across the term "backlinks". You're like "What Are baclinks?" Well, if you're going to drive traffic  make money  from promoting your affiliate sites through the content on your blog/site you'll have to get acquainted with this term. But be forewarned. Building backlinks is not an overnight flash.. Just like any other enterprise, it takes time to attain backlink glory.. With hardwork and diligence, the traffic,which , hopefully should convert into cash will start flowing to your blog/site.

So What are Backlinks?

Well, backlinks are links that are directed to your website/blog. They're usually links to websites whose content or theme is similar to that of your blog/site. Backlinks are absolutely crucial in that they determine how popular your blog/website is- the higher the number of backllinks you get, the more popular your blog/site. Even more important, search engines such as google give high marks to sites that have quality backlinks and consider these sites more relevant when conduction search queries. When you drive traffic to your blog/site through these backlinks, it gains more press.

Just merely getting quality inbound sites is not enough. Search engines calculate the relevance of your site to the keywords used to search your site  to ascertain the quality of those inbound links. for instance, let's say I have a site about race cars, and I receive a backlink from a blog/site about Ferraris, then that backlink would be more relevant than the backlink from a blog/ website about dog food.  Be forewarned though, if you're thinking of using illegal tactics to achieve inbound links search engines such as google are already ahead of you. No thanks to unscrupulous webmasters using hidden links or automatically generated pages to gather backlinks, search engines have made it doubly difficult for such unscrupulous activity to flourish.

So How do you build backlinks to your website?

Use Comments Section on Your Website/blog

The comments section will be the perfect place to build your backlinks. Every comment made about an rticle on your blog/website helps in building your backlinks. I Did you realize that every comment left on your block serves as a backlink? think about it. The more comments readers make about your article, the more backlinks you build fro your blog/site. It also helps even better when the reader's comments  includes keywords from your  blog/site which, in turn help your blog/site surge up the page rankings.  Make sure to include the most important keywords  in the titles of your articles  to to improve the quality of your  backlinks.

Guest Blogging
Guest blogging is also another effective way of getting backlinks for your blog/site. You find a blog  whose theme and content is similar to yours and then seek permission from the owner of the blog to guest blog on his blog(for want of a better term. Just leave the link at the end of each post and the backlinks and the traffic should start building up.

Article Marketing

If anybody tells you article marketing doesn't work don't listen to them. Article marketing is probably the easiest and cheapest way to get backlinks to your blog/site . Just write articles loaded with keywords similar to those on your blog/site, and submit them to as many article directories as you like. Most importantly, leave the name of your blog/site in the resource box for readers to link back to if you want traffic to head in your blog/site's direction. There are so many article directories out there you could submit your articles to. Article Directories such as ezines.com and articlesbase are quite popular among affiliate marketers.  However, if you want to save yourself the trouble of  submitting your articles manually you may want to consider using automated article submission programs like Article Demon to make the submission process that much faster. If you know next to nothing about article marketing I suggest you purchase the Beginner's Guide to Article Marketing. Once you get the hang of article marketing, you then buy the article demon.


So as you can see backlinks are quite essential to the popularity and health of your blog/sites. They are probably the most important part in your quest to fly up the search engine charts.  With a little bit of hard work and perseverance your blog/site will gets loads of traffic which should convert into cash for your cash register.


So if you want to learn about how to build backlinks and much more?

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